This was written by Iron Knee. Posted on Saturday, January 28, 2012, at 1:31 am. Filed under Irony. Tagged Elections. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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In the same way the anti-Obama crowd got comfortable early on with calling him things like, “Dear Leader” in sarcastic criticism of those who voted for him, I’m now seeing an overwhelming persecution of Ron Paul supporters on the Internet, who are frequently and without pause labelled as “disciples” and “worshipers.”

“He’s in the pocket of Wall Street” might not be a contradictory prognostication given some of the wall streeters he’s picked to advise and work for him and his slow to begin investigations approach to those mostly responsible for our economic demise.
As for the rest, I’m with you.

Whoops, read this without the brackets, didn’t realize it was targeted at the paradoxical claims. If you want a good source for contradictory accusations about the President, all you need to do is find video of that one guy who used to be on Fox News. What was his name? Glenn Something. Oh, well.

But I must agree with the main thrust of your post, that simplistic accusations “big spender”, “anti military”, etc. don’t work, and the details matter. It would be great if such seeming contradictions would lead the Republican faithful to realize that the world is not as clear cut, black and white, as their political operatives would have them believe.

With regard to the socialist v. fascist claim, quite a few conservatives (usually well to the right of, well, right) claim that these two ideologies are both on the left, regardless of how opposed the two lines of thought may be, people see authoritarian & authoritarian and think it’s all the same. But hey, not like education should be a priority.

Dan does make an interesting point that Wall Street itself may, in fact, be anti-business.

Thatguy, the other problem with the “Socialist vs Fascist” fallacy is that it’s *not even* “authoritarian vs authoritarian”. Maybe if the comparison was “Stalinist vs Fascist” there would be a possible point of departure. As it is, “Socialist vs Fascist” is a uninteresting collection of words.